• “I Hate Christianity” (514 likes), described as “A group for those who hate all the prejudice bull--- and ridiculous ideas that come with Christianity... and really any other religions.”

• “Zombie Jesus” (56,635 likes), with the caption “Zombie Jesus only wants you for your brains”

There is even a page called “Hitler Fetus is our Jesus,” stating, “In our cult -ahem, religion- Hitler Fetus is our master. I mean Jesus. OUR SAVIOR.” How has this page survived even one day on Facebook?

And what about this tiny group with 13 members called, “Why are Christians Such Chicken---- Cowards?” It states, “Every time some religious retard group that claims to have facts, truth or to be able to defeat all atheists, they block any atheist who questions them .. so this group is for all you big bad xtians who think you can talk [expletive].. bring it chicken [expletives].” This is not in violation of Facebook standards?

When I learned that my book page had been deleted, I posted a comment about it on my Facebook Fan page (AskDrBrown, which at the time of this writing is still active), drawing some nasty responses in the midst of many positive ones. Some of the best were:

• Scott: Poor “Dr.” Brown. He’s such a white conservative victim of the world (with a horrible porn stache). [Yes, loving and tolerant members of the LGBT community frequently attack me for my mustache.]

• Karen: What has the world come to when hateful bigots are no longer allowed to spread their hatred and bigotry whereever they want? What are you going to do with all that hate?

• Paul: You are all on the side of the dinosaurs, and you will all be as extinct soon enough. Stop spending so much time caring how other people live their lives. In the meantime, get lots of soap - because you have the blood of every bullied or dead gay kid on your hands. Those bullies learned their hatred from adults like you!

• Jason: Brown is a dime-a-dozen con artist peddling fear, and the easy blame that takes away that fear, to the gullible.

Putting the ridiculous hyperbole aside, this is really typical of the mentality of Facebook: Bashing Christianity (and Israel) is acceptable and permitted; taking respectful issue with gay activism is unacceptable and forbidden. Where have we heard this before?

Perhaps it’s time we send a message to Facebook confronting them on their bigotry and hypocrisy? You can start by recommending this article to your Facebook friends and then protesting to Facebook directly.

Update: At 1:03 PM, June 14, 2012, my contact at Facebook sent me this message. "The page has been reinstated. It was an error on our part and taken down accidentally. Our team has reached out to the quality team and double checked our internal systems to help ensure this doesn't happen again."